If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
GALILEO GALILEIGod is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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